Building synthetic chromosomes one yeast at a time: insights from Sc2.0

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Authors and Affiliations

1. School of Natural Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

   Paige E. Erpf, Felix Meier, Roy S. K. Walker, Hugh D. Goold, Ian T. Paulsen & Isak S. Pretorius

2. New South Wales Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Elizabeth Macarthur Agriculture Institute, Advanced Gene Technology Centre, Menangle, New South Wales, Australia

   Hugh D. Goold

3. Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA

   Jef D. Boeke

4. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA

   Jef D. Boeke

5. Department of Biomedical Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY, USA

   Jef D. Boeke

6. The Australian Genome Foundry, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

   Ian T. Paulsen

Contributions

P.E.E., H.D.G., R.S.K.W., I.T.P. and I.S.P. conceived, developed and edited the manuscript, and K.M. and J.D.B. contributed to sections of the article and significantly helped with the refinement of the paper.

Corresponding authors

Correspondence to Ian T. Paulsen or Isak S. Pretorius.

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing interests.